Don Shanahan tries his hand at predicting the major 89th Academy Award nominations

The 89th Academy Award nominations will be announced Tuesday morning, January 24, 2017 after a longer gap than usual between the Golden Globes that were given out back on January 8th. As always, I’ve been following the full awards season over on my Awards Tracker page. Using that data as the tea leaves and a truckload of hunches, I’m going to attempt to closely predict the Oscar nominations for the “Big 8” categories for the fourth year in a row.